Re: Confusion about version numbering scheme

Yaakov Selkowitz via Newlib <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Organization Red Hat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2020-06-11 at 13:30 -0400, Jeff Johnston via Newlib wrote:
> The newlib tag gets created by a shell script I run which at the same time
> creates the archive and uploads it.
> 
> I can't speak as to why the cygwin tags are the way they are and Corinna is
> on vacation at the moment, but perhaps
> one of the other Cygwin maintainers can comment.

Simple: Cygwin's version numbering is completely independent of
Newlib's.

> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:40 AM Josef Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > in order to find out details for
> > https://sourceware.org/pipermail/newlib/2020/017688.html
> > I decided to git-bisect newlib-3.1.0 up to newlib-3.2.0.
> > 
> > And on that, I'm somewhat confused about newlib version numbering scheme.
> > 
> > How comes that cygwin-3_0-branch and cygwin-3_0_x-release are SUCCESSORS of
> > newlib-3.1.0 tag?
> > 
> > Thbis makes me wonder whether
> > ftp://sourceware.org/pub/newlib/newlib-3.1.0.tar.gz was really created
> > from
> > the newlib-3.1.0 tag?

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Yaakov Selkowitz
Senior Software Engineer - Platform Enablement
Red Hat, Inc.
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